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PRINTERS' REVIEW 




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MANUFACTURERS OF 

Printinc Machinery and Material 



Fort Hill Square. Boston, Mass. 

1004 Arch St. Phila. _^^^^r^ 45 Plymouth PlChicago. 






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The Printers' Review. 



Praters' |jUbkfo, 

WORLD'S FAIR EDITION. 



DEVOTED TO OUR OWN INTERESTS, AND ALSO TO THE 
INTERESTS OF OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Published and Printed by 
GOIvDING «5to COMPANY, 
BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO. 



New Series. Boston, May i, 1893. No. 13. 



None who visit the great exposition at Chi- 
cago can take to themselves more credit for the 
wonderful progress of the world there exempli- 
fied, or derive more lasting benefit from the les- 
sons of the occasion than those connected with 
the printing trade. All arts and sciences must 
acknowledge their indebtedness to the "Art 
Preservative of all Arts " for perpetuating and 
disseminating records of past explorations in 
the fields of knowledge, besides affording a 
medium of communication between contempo- 
rary students the world over. When noting the 
perfection attained in press building, paper mak- 
ing, type founding and engraving, we should 
remember that the development of the printing 
press from a crudely constructed wooden ma- 
chine has been accomplished in a century ; that 
' within the memory of men now living nearly all 
paper used was made slowly and laboriously by 
hand ; that art and type-making have been 
wedded scarcely fifty years, and that two decades 
ago the processes of engraving by photography 
were practically unknown. Let our bosoms swell 
with justifiable pride when we think that America 
has led the world in the invention of appliances 
for transforming earth's natural gifts to man into 
artificial forms conducive to his comfort and 
happiness. 



OUR THIRD PRIZE OFFER. 



We trust that no printer, either employer or 
employed, will leave the World's Fair without 
visiting our exhibit. Although the space is con- 
tracted, we show a large line of our most im- 
portant manufactures, and there are many things 
that will repay careful inspection. To those 
printers who visit us at our exhibit or at our 
Chicago salesroom and register in our visitor's 
book, we make the following offer : 



TO NEWSPAPER MEN. 



$50.00 



For the best article describ- 
ing our Fair or Salesroom 
Exhibit, or both, printed in 
any regular publication, we will give SO 
Dollars in cash. Marked copies of 
the paper containing the notice must be 
sent to us at our Boston office, addressed 
in care of "Competitive Department," 



$25.00 



TO JOB PRINTERS. 

For the best article in manu- 
script from an employing or 
journeyman job printer, call- 
ing attention to our Fair or Salesroom 
Exhibit, or both, we will give Dol- 
lars in cash. Manuscript must be 
mailed to our Boston office, addressed in 
care of i( Competitive Department." 

Papers and manuscript can be sent in any 
time during the continuance of the Exposition 
and until one month after its close. Awards 
will be announced in the first number of the 
Printers' Review issued after the termination 
of the Fair. 



A TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. DIVIDEND. 

A Golding Jobber will not only do better work but 
twenty-five per cent, more than any old style press 
made. You can average 15,000 impressions a day on a 
fto x 15 Golding Jobber, with a possible speed or 2,500 
per hour, against 1,200 on an old style quarto. This 
means a gain of 3,000 per diem or 900,000 in a year of 
300 working days. At the usual price of $1.00 per 
1000 charged for work on presses of this size there 
would be an annual increase of income from this one 
machine of $900. It will not cost you over $200 to 
make the exchange, by selling your old press to some 
printer that counts the cost, but not the profits. 



A FIFTY-DOLLAR IDEA. 

In the Printers' Review for September, 
1892, we offered a prize of $50.00 in cash to the 
printer suggesting a practical idea for calling 
attention to our exhibit at the World's Colum- 
bian Exposition which should be selected by us 
as the most original, unique and valuable. This 
offer has brought a host of responses, some of 
which, while ingenious, would be impracticable 
under any conditions, aJ^J others that are well 
conceived and could be useful to us but for the 
entire change in our plans made necessary by 
the reduction of our spa<\^at the Exposition to 
one-fourth of what we aske^ for and required to 
properly show a complete line of our manufac- 
tures. As none of those that would be accept- 
able can be utilized, we have deemed it most 
fair to the competitors to consider the compara- 
tive originality, uniqueness and value of the sug- 
gestions apart from their usefulness to us in 
connection with our exhibit at Chicago. 

The prize is awarded to Mr. W. P. Hazard, of 
Westchester, Pa., publisher of " The Guernsey 
Breeders' Journal," and author of several stand- 
ard works on live stock breeding and butter 
making. Mr. Hazard's letter is given on this 
page, together with copies of some advertise- 
ments which convey a very good idea of the 
costumes worn by Benjamin Franklin and his 
good wife. 

It is a coincidence worthy of note that the first 
prize in our Job Outfit Competition and the prize 
offered for a suggestion calling attention to our 
World's Fair Exhibit were both captured by 
Pennsylvania printers, the former a complete 
No. 3 Pearl Press, having been awarded to Mr. 
J. W. Strohm, of Newville, Pa. 

Many of the letters from those who entered 
into our second competition would be interest- 
ing reading if printed entire, but space prevents 
us from giving more than a brief reference to 
those that particularly attracted our attention 
during the examination. The carrying out of 
some received would cost nearly as much as Un- 
cle Sam's White Squadron. 

One suggests sending a twenty-five cent read- 
ing notice announcing our exhibit to every news- 
paper in the country. 

There are a number of plans proposed for 
showing a printing office in operation. 

An Ohio printer thinks that a captive balloon 
might be utilized to carry a small boy and ad- 
vertising matter, the latter to be showered down 
upon the crowd. The same contestant suggests 
giving free coffee to all ladies that apply. 

From Ohio, also, comes the idea of running 
some of our presses by dog power, after the 
fashion in vogue in the writer's office. 

A prize to be drawn lottery fashion by those 
whose names are entered in our printers' register 
at the Fair is the favorite scheme of some. 

One writer thinks that it \%o.i^ld be a good 
plan to get the coi-T^ct for printing the 
World's Fair admission tickets, and have them 
worked on one of our exhibition presses, and 
another proposes that we present one admission 
ticket to each visiting printer. 

A steamboat, made to represent an animal, 
and provided with a mechanism for emitting a 
sound peculiar to the animal, to cruise about on 
the lagoons, is the idea of an Oberlin Co., Ohio, 
printer, who also believes that "a big blowing 
machine, with, say, a three-foot mouth, large 
enough to nearly blow a man off his feet," would 
draw a crowd and make lots of fun, if placed 
near our display. We trust this is not intended 
as a reflection on those who make a livelihood 
by selling printing machinery. 

The "Devil" with various forms and acces- 
sories enters into the plans of several. 

There are numerous designs for souvenirs, 
some of which show excellent taste, and many 
of the contestants evince the possession of ad- 
mirable tact in attracting and holding the atten- 
tion of the buying public. 

Our thanks are due to all who tried for the 
prize, and we shall be glad to have such of them 
as visit Chicago this summer compete for the 
prize offered in this number of the REVIEW for 
the best description of our exhibit and manu- 
factures shown at our salesroom, 45 Plymouth 
Place. 

MR. HAZARD'S LETTER. 

Westchester, Pa., Nov. 3rd, 1892. 
Messrs Golding & Co. 

Gentlemen : — In your number for September you 
invite suggestions of ideas for a printing exhibit. I 
would suggest you procure the original Franklin hand 



press, and alongside have a wax or papier-mache" 
statue of Franklin, standing dressed in the costume of 
the period, with his hand resting on the press; and 
perhaps that of his wife, who did so much toward 
making his fortune, standing on the other side of the 
press. She would excite the interest of the female 
spectators. Then have your latest fast press, with 
two similar figures, male and female, in the costume 
of this period. The contrast of the styles of press 
and costume would not be more marked the one than 
the other. Of course proper labels would attract 
attention and explain. If stood up on a platform they 
would not occupy much available space, would be 
easily seen from top to toe, and leave room in front 
for some small presses and other accessories. 

If thought necessary, actual fronts of the house of 
Franklin and of that of the printer of to-day might 
be painted on a back canvas, or real fronts constructed. 
I add an advertisement made by Franklin for his own 
and his wife's stolen clothing, so that the full costume 
can be given from his description of it. This cer- 
tainly would draw attention, would be quoted by every 
newspaper, and receive as much notice as anything in 
the exhibition; would excite wonder and astonishment 
that such was the costume actually of that period, 
and being entirely matter-of-fact would be open to no 
false criticism or denial, and certainly show a real and 
striking contrast. 

Imagine Franklin alive at the present day walking 
down Chestnut Street with his wife. They would 
probably excite some attention. He with fur cap 
covering his bushy and curly wig, huge spectacles, 
red flapped waistcoat, frilled bosom and sleeves, re- 
paired breeches coming to the knee, and finished off 
with light blue stockings and large buckled shoes; 
and his w'fe with her flat gypsy bonnet, enormous 
hoops, short petticoat, and gown glorious with red 
roses and yellow and blue flowers, the whole sur- 
mounted with a scarlet cloak with double cape ! 

W P. Hazard. 

Franklin had advertised that the thief had carried 
off "a half-worn sagathee coat, lined with silk; four 
fine homespun shirts; a fine Holland shirt, ruffled at 
the hands and bosom; a pair of black broadcloth 
breeches, new seated and lined with leather; two pair 
of good worsted stockings, one dark color, the other 
light blue; a coarse cambric handkerchief, marked 
F in red silk; a new pair of calfskin shoes; a boy's 
new castor hat, and sundry other things." And the 
thief was stated to be a schoolmaster, who wore 
" a lightish color great-coat, red jacket, black silk 
breeches; an old felt hat, too little for him, and sewed 
in the side of the crown with white thread, and an 
old dark color wig." 

In 1750 Franklin met with a similar loss, and adver- 
tised for "a woman's long scarlet cloak, with double 
cape; a woman's gown of printed cotton, of the sort 
called brocade, very remarkable, the ground dark, 
with large red roses and other large red and yellow 
flowers, with blue in some of the flowers, and smaller 
blue and white flowers, with many green leaves; a 
pair of woman's stays, covered with white tabby be- 
fore and dove-colored tabby behind, with two large 
steel hooks." 



CORRE SPON DENCE. 

The editor of the Review will cheerfully answer 
any questions pertinent to the trade that may be 
addressed to him, or will submit them to the readers 
of the Review for discussion. Letters of general inter- 
est will be published in full. 



To the Editor of the Review: 

I received my copy of the Printer's Review to-day, 
and, as usual, it was very welcome. 

I wish some of the professional printers would yield 
to the request of the editor and submit copy that would 
be of benefit to the rest of us. 

I would like to ask some of them how long a person 
has to serve at the trade to become a member of the 
" Typographical Union," and also how long before he 
can become a member of the various State Press 
Associations. F. A., Crockett, Limerick, Me. 

[The law of the International Union reads, " not 
less than four years' apprenticeship," and the local 
unions are at liberty to fix time as much longer as they 
see fit, within reason, of course. In Boston and New 
York the term is five years. Women may be admitted 
at the end of three years. 

We believe it is not essential that a person be a 
printer in order to join the State Press Associations, 
the requirements being that applicant should be a 
publisher or editor of some regularly published news- 
paper, though reporters are sometimes admitted to 
membership.— Ed. Review.] 



ITS DEFICIENCY. 



" Going to start a paper, I hear." 

" Yes. Smith's going to furnish the money and I'm 
going to furnish the brains." 

(A month later.) " How is that paper of yours 
getting on?" 

" Suspended last week." 

" Run out of money ? " 

"No. Run out of brains." — Buffalo Express. 



Read the article on job press fountains on page 6, 
It will interest you, and the suggestions contained 
may prove profitable some time. 



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THE BUILDI NG OF A PRESS. 

r,EW persons not employed in the 
construction of printing machinery 
have a conception of the many pro- 
cesses and great amount of detail 
involved in the production of a 
finished press, and a great many 
printers who own and operate 
presses are not, we fear, appreciative of what 
improved mechanical methods and appliances, 





it is called in factory parlance. Here they un- 
dergo a process which removes any unevenness 
or roughness caused by the sand or imperfec- 
tions of the mold. The casting you see there 
is the frame of a No. 9 Golding Jobber. It 
weighs 1000 pounds, and to the casual ob- 
server may look very simple indeed ; but 
it is a difficult casting to make. You will 
notice that the sides, back, front and bed, 
instead of being made^separately and bolted 
together, as is the custom on most job 
presses, are made in one piece, by which 
means' absolute rigidity is 
gainecl. There can be no 
settling of one side or foot, 
as a consequence of an un- 
even floor, cramping the 
bearings, and causing the 
press to run hard. It re- 
quires four or five days to make the 
mold for casting one of these 
frames, and notwithstanding the 
great care exercised by the foundry 
people, one occasionally comes 
from the sand defective and worth- 
less. Some idea of the strength of a frame may 



to discover surface flaws ; and to reveal hidden 
defects, are struck with a hammer. All imperfect 
castings are returned to the foundry. 




supplementing inventive genius, have done to 
reduce the cost of production, lighten labor, and 
raise the standard of quality in printing. 

Ingenious machinery and fine tools possess a 
fascination for nearly everyone, and he must be 
a strange manner of printer who is not interested 
in a handsomely designed, finely finished press. 
Not a few of our readers have seen and are familiar 
with our presses, and such as have not are presuma- 
bly seekers for information about everything connected 
with their trade. Supposing all take a stroll with us 
through the large manufactory on Fort-Hill Square 
and Purchase Street, in Boston, where the Golding 



be gathered from the fact that one just returned 
to us from a branch salesroom for repairs fell 
five stories into the cellar of a burning building 



CLEANING AND TESTING THE CASTINGS. 

The iron, and steel also, supplied by the foun- 
dries, must conform to an established standard, 
and its exact tensile strength we ascertain by test 
on a machine made for the purpose. Our stand- 
ard is higher than many deem necessary, but by 
assiduously guarding the quality of material used 
we are enabled to reduce the weight and bulk 




presses and many other of the most popular 
time and labor-saving appliances used by print- 
ers are built. 

POWER AND LIGHTING. 

Naturally, we will start with the engine room, 
which is in the basement. Here we find the 
great engine that drives the machinery of the 
works, transmitting its power through one and 
one-fifth miles of belting to the hundreds of 
busy planers, drills, and lathes. In this room 
we also see the dynamo that produces the elec- 
tric current for the incandescent lights used 
throughout the manufactory and salesrooms. 
We generate our own electricity during 
the day time, but are connected with the 
street circuit, so that the lamps are not ex- 
tinguished when our engine stops. From 
the street circuit we also obtain electricity 
for operating motors in any one or more of ' /| 
the different departments without running ' _ 
our large engine when pressure of orders 
makes it necessary to work over-time. 
Now, if you please, we will follow the course 
of a press through the different shops, beginning 
with 

THE STOCK ROOM. 

The castings come to us from the foundries 
just as they are taken from the molds, and go 
first to the stock room, or " snagging room " as 



without sustaining other injuries than the break- 
age of one of the roller tracks and the loss of 
its enamel coat. The smaller parts were nearly 
all broken by the fall or ruined by the fire, but 
the frame is intact with the exception noted. 



of parts, to the end that there is no superfluous iron to 
increase friction, while at the same time there is ample 
strength. 

PLANING. 

This is a section of our planing room, where the beds and 
all flat bearing surfaces are accurately planed and bed and 
platen surfaces made perfectly parallel with each other. 
This requires good machinery and workmanship, as an er- 
ror made at the start cannot be easily rectified. The im- 
portance or having these surfaces perfect can 
readily be seen, as all imperfections have to be 
overcome in the make-ready every time a job 
is put on the press. 




A GLIMPSE OF THE PLANING ROOM. 

Every possible precaution is taken to insure 
perfect castings. Before any work is done upon 
them they are scanned closely by an inspector, 



DRILLING 

is the next stage. The frames are encased in 
heavy, steel boxes, technically known as "jigs." 
They are pierced on the sides with holes which 
guide the drills and insure perfect allignment 
of bearings in opposite sides of the frame, 
and exact uniformity in the relative posi- 
tions of the holes or bearings to each 
other. It is this system, carried through- 
out the construction of the press, that 
makes the parts interchangeable. 

If any part of a press is accidentally 
broken it is only necessary to write or 
wire the size of the machine and its serial 
number, with, of course, an intelligible 
description of the broken casting, and 
a new part, ready to apply without any 
fitting, can be shipped immediately. 
Down stairs we shall find where 
frames and smaller parts of the Golding 
Jobber are finished. Here are our most skilful 
workmen. The bearings are first reamed by 
hand, bringing them to a smooth surface and a 
snug fit with the shafts and studs. The platen, 
rockers and other component parts down to the 
smallest screws are finished with the most minute 



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exactness. The side arms, which may seem 
small in comparison with those used on some 
presses, are made of drop-forged crucible steel, 
and will sustain a tensile strain of 100,000 
pounds to the square inch without breaking. 
This is far in excess of any work they would be 
required to perform in printing. The process 
of making this steel is such that a hidden flaw 
is practically impossible. All studs and shafts 
subject to constant wear and heavy strain are 
made of the same metal. 

This painstaking care in building is what con- 
stitutes the difference between a reliable, profit- 
able press and a machine set off with external 
garnishments to catch the eye, yet defective in 
design and construction and not to be depended 
upon for service. 

ENAMELING. 

In the paint shop, to which we will now go, 
such portions of the castings as are not to be 
polished are treated to several coats of enamel, 
each coat, being baked on in the big oven, until 
finally the surface is covered with a glossy coat- 
ing nearly as hard as the iron itself, and imper- 
vious to the action of ink, oil or lye. The 
greater portion of our tools go through the 
same process. There is a No. 8 Golding Job- 
ber frame, enameled and ornamented, going into 
the oven for the final bak- 



Besides those you have seen there are many 
other busy rooms devoted to the making of rule- 
working tools, lead cutters, composing sticks, 
card cutters, tablet presses, galleys, cabinets, 
stands, cases, and other wood goods, and then 
there is the roller room, and the ink depart- 
ment in which our popular Owl Brand Inks 
are made. 

Now we are in the salesrooms again, recently 
enlarged by the addition of 2000 feet of floor 
space. If you will take time to. look around the four 
large rooms which constitute the sales depart- 
ment, you will find a complete line of samples 
of our own productions, itnd everything that 
enters into the equipment of a job or 
newspaper plant, from a font of type 
to a big power self-clamping paper 
cutter. As thoroughness is the rule 
in the manufacturing branch, so 
promptness and painstaking atten- 
tion to the orders and correspond- 
ence of patrons are the actuating 
influences in the salesrooms and 
counting-room. Thank you for the 
privilege of showing you our works. 
You will go to the World's Fair, of 
course. Don't fail to see our exhibit 
there, or to visit our Chicago sales- 
room, 45 Plymouth Place. 



NOT WHAT YOU PAY FOR A PRESS 
BUT WHAT IT PAYS YOU ! 



There are two values to a purchase — what it costs 
and what it's worth. 

Cork costs eight cents a pound, but if you are 
drowning half a mile from shore its value would be 
" not what you pay for the cork, but what cork pays 
you." 

You are not drowning, but you are struggling — 
struggling for profits. The life preserver on which 
you are placing your dependence is a printing press. 
The value of that printing press is not what you do 
for it in the way of price, but what it does for you in 
the way of profits. 

It makes but little difference what it costs within 




SETTING-UP ROOM. 

Looks like a pretty big 
stock, doesn't it? But it 
rarely gets ahead of the 
demand. If there was but 
one each of the different 
styles and sizes of presses 
that we make on the floor 
there would be twenty- 
three. The exactness of 
the work of construction 
is proven here. Every part 
goes into its appointed 
place with scarcely a bit 
of fitting, and one by one 
the machines are made 
ready for the rigid inspec- 
tion which all must pass 
before being sold. The 
impression is squared to 
type-high steel blocks ; the 



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fountains are tested with oil to make sure the 
cylinders are perfectly true and that the knives 
fit exactly, and the presses run by steam power 
until gears, pinions and shafts work freely and 
smoothly. There is no expense spared and no 
detail slighted from the time that the rough 
castings come from the foundry until the finished 
machine goes forth. 

The Pearl and Official presses follow substan- 
tially the same course as the Golding Jobbers, 
the only difference being that the smaller cast- 
ings make the work somewhat less heavy. 

We are making only one cylinder press — the 
Fairhaven — at present. This is built espe- 
cially for country newspaper offices, and has 
found much favor among that class of buyers, 
owing to its simplicity, convenience, the ease 
with which it can be run by hand, and its low 
cost. The greater part of the work on the 
Fairhaven is done in one of our Purchase Street 
buildings, across the bridge, and in that building 
also the Golding Newspaper Folders are made. 



The questHs_of rates for ad- 
vertising is perennial, omni- 
present, immortal. No univer- 
sally fixed rates can be given, 
and the views of publishers are 
naturally more suggestive than 
authoritative. As a rule, how- 
ever, it may be confidently as- 
serted that in all cases, except- 
ing those of the dailies in the 
great cities and the periodicals 
of national prominence, the. rates 
charged are either too high for 
small spaces and single or few 
insertions, or too low for long 
terms and large spaces. In fact, 
publishers have been inclined too much to the idea 
of the poor old lady who kept the variety store. To 
an inquiry of one of her customers — to whom she 
always had said that she sold at less than cost — as to 
how she could afford to do business in that way, she 
replied, " Oh, I couldn't do it only that I sell so much." 
There is no business in the world where such enor- 
mous and preposterous reductions are made in whole- 
sale rates as in advertising. The announcement of a 
reduction of twenty-five per cent, in the price of dry 
goods by a merchant is always taken with more or less 
credulity on the part of the public; what must be the 
opinion of the shrewd business man who is informed that 
he can have a single insertion of an advertisement for 
50 cents, but that if he will take fifty-two insertions, he 
can have them for eleven cents each? — Newspaper dom. 



The Eastern Advertising Co. of Pawtucket, R. I., 
and Messrs. J. Edward Law & Co. of Lynn, Mass., 
have recently purchased 32-inch Diamond Self-Clamp- 
ing Paper Cutters from us, and are well pleased with 
them. This is theoretically and practically the best 
self-clamping cutter. Unlike other cutters, the clamp 
can be instantly adjusted so as to give a pressure of 
from 50 to 5000 pounds. Write for full particulars. 



reasonable 
bounds. But it 
makes a great 
deal of difference 
what it is paying 
you every day 
you run it. 

A difference of 
twenty cents per 
hour in earning 
capacity between 
two presses is 
very t r i fl i 
Many printers 
would overlook 
it altogether. But 
at the end of a 
very few years 
that trifle will 
alone have paid 
the entire cost of 
the press. 

It is a true 
saying that in 
buying a press 
what you pay 
should be of far 
less account to you than what you will receive. 

Select your press, then, not on its price, but on its 
producing capacity. It is better to pay $4,500 for a 
press which will earn $3,500 a year than $2,500 for a 
press which will earn $1,500 a year. 

Again, price can safely be left to the fierce grind- 
stone of competition ; but competition which protects 
you on price really ensnares you on value. Half a 
dozen men are watching and attacking the price of 
your new press, but you yourself must alone take 
cognizance of what you are receiving. 

Demand the best, and remember that it is univer- 
sally the cheapest. 

It is a good plan, too, to keep your office abreast of 
the latest improved machinery. For the pressroom is 
really the money producer. Don't overlook the fact ! 

And the pressrooms which are making money to-day 
were built up originally by this process of modernizing 
the machinery. — C. B. Cottrell &> Sons' Circular. 



SAVED THE FRAME. 



A colored man employed by a Boston electrotyping 
firm to carry forms to and from customers recently 
essayed the characteristic feat of carrying a form of 
artistically manipulated brass rule back downward on 
the top of his head. The form pied, unfortunately, 
and the dusky messenger proceeded to deliver such 
of the wreck as he could conveniently scoop up. En- 
tering the printer's office he emptied his pockets of 
chaotic leads, quads, rule and furniture, and remarked 
apologetically, " Picture done gone to smash, Mister 

C ; mighty sorry; but 'pears the frame aint hurt 

a bit." 

Brower Quoins are simple, sure and cheaper than 
the ordinary wedge quoins which they resemble. The 
price is $2.00 per dozen, less 25 per cent, for cash. 
Keys, 50 cents each. 



Send for a copy of our 1893 Machinery Catalogue. 
It is now ready for distribution, and will be sent free 
to any printer. 



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THE KIND OF PRESS THAT PAYS. 

f)HE press that a hustling, wide-awake 
printer wants is one that can be re- 
lied upon for doing all kinds of 
work in the quickest possible time 
and in the best manner. A recent 
writer says, "A press that will make 
jooo impressions per hour is worth 
just twice as much as one that will do but 1500, 
other things being equals 

There are columns of sensible logic condensed 
in these twenty-six words, and every printer that 
reads them knows their truth ; but how many will 
take the sentiment home to themselves and profit 
by it? 

Not only is there no money in clumsy, slow- 
running presses, but they inevitably result in 
heavy loss, and why some printers cling to them 
is a mystery. They mean 

A great waste of time in getting the impression ad- 
justed "square" and in overlaying or underlaying 
to make up for yielding of the platen or bed sur- 
faces. 

From fifteen minutes to an hour spent on many forms 
in overcoming slurs caused by the wearing of bear- 
ings, for the taking up of which there is no pro- 
vision. 

A product of from one-quarter to one-half less than 
would be possible on improved machines. 

Further waste of time because of the absence of a 
practical means of ink supply or distribution. 

Dissatisfaction of customers with quality of work, and 
consequent loss of trade. 

The greatest mistake that a printer can make 
is to stretch the point of economy to the extent 
of refusing to avail himself of the improved ma- 
chinery. Retrench in other ways, if necessary, 
but equip the press room with the best that 
money will buy. 

No press now made will give more satisfactory 
results in every way than the Golding Jobber, 
We make strong claims for it, but none that 
cannot be substantiated, or that we are not will- 
ing to back up by the strongest kind of guar- 
anty. We call your attention below to some of 
its prominent features. 

SPEED OF THE GOLDING JOBBER. 

The maximum speed of the eighth is 3200; 
of the quarto, 2500; of the half-medium, 2000, 
and of the half-super-royal, 1800. The average 
speed of the eighth can be placed at 2500 ; of 
the quarto at 2200 ; of the half-medium at 1800, 
and of the half-super-royal at 1400. A good 
feeder will have no difficulty whatever in feeding 
large sheets on the presses when running at the 
maximum speeds given. 

CONSTRUCTION OF THE GOLDING JOBBER. 

These presses are made in our own work- 
shops, and not " farmed out " to machinists un- 
familiar with press building. We have the best 
obtainable machinery and employ the most skill- 
ful workmen. Every part can be immediately 
duplicated, if broken, and put in place by a man 
with ordinary mechanical knowledge. The im- 
pression shafts are of crucible steel, as are also 
the side arms and pinions. Hardened steel 
studs are supplied on parts subjecT: to the great- 
est wear. The gearing and working parts are 
beneath the bed and platen, in the body of the 
press. By a patented arrangement a continuous 
rotary movement without cams or slides is ob- 
tained, giving a period of rest for feeding, a 
dwell on the impression and a quick return. 
The positive movement obviates unnecessary 
friction and there is no noise, even at the highest 
speed. 

STRENGTH OF THE GOLDING JOBBER. 

The principle of a solid frame, as illustrated 
in this press, is used by the soundest engineer- 
ing experts. Besides affording great strength, 
when properly proportioned, it insures perfect, 
allignment of parts. The actuating mechanism 
is within the frame, under the bed, remote from 
the impression, and is capable of giving a pres- 
sure of 600 pounds to the square inch on a full 
form of type. The bed, being cast solidly with 
the frame and supported by a strong web of iron 
at the back, will sustain this heavy impression 
without yielding. 

ITS DURABILITY. 

No press made costs less for repairs than the 
Golding Jobber. Only the best material is used 
in its construction, and frequent tests are made 
to guard against possible deterioration of the 
iron and steel used in the various parts, and to 



demonstrate exactly what they will stand under 
tensile strain. 

MAKING READY. 

Men with much theory and little practice 
claim that the impression screws of a job press, 
once set, should never be disturbed. Pressmen 
who have operated the Golding Jobber know 
that a great deal of time in making ready can be 
gained by using the convenient impression ad- 
justment wedges, when changing from a heavy 
form to a light one, or vice versa. 

EASE OF RUNNING. 

All sizes of the Jobber can be run by foot 
faster and with less fatigue than any other platen 
press, and the two smaller sizes are especially 
adapted for operating with the treadle. Many 
of the half-medium and several of the half- 
super-royal size are run by foot. 

INK SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION. 

Our Automatic Brayer Fountain, which can 
be used only on the Golding Jobber, is the only 
practical fountain that has been devised for a 
disk distribution press. Its operation is simple 
and accurate, and all classes of work come 
within its range. 

PRESSES ON TRIAL. 

We will send the Golding Jobber to any re- 
sponsible printer in the United States subject to 
thirty days' trial, to be returned at our expense 
if it does not prove satisfactory in every way. 
A fair trial will demonstrate the superiority of 
our presses, both as regards quantity and qual- 
ity of work, and remove any prejudice that may 
exist. 

GOLDING JOBBER PRICE LIST. 

No. 6, 8x12 in. . . $200 I No. 8, 12 x 18 in. . $350 
No. 7, iox 15 in. . . 275 I No. 9, 15 x 21 in. . 450 
These prices include three rollers cast ready for use, 
extra set of rollers cores and wheels, two chases, ink 
plate, hand roller, wrench, treadle and brake. Steam 
fixtures can be applied at any time. 

PRICE LIST OF EXTRAS. 

No. 6. No. 7. No. 8. No. 9. 
Fountain & Au. Brayer . $25.00 $35.00 $40.00 $50.00 
Duplex Distributor . . 12.00 16.00 20.00 24.00 
Counter (to 10,000) . . 10.00 10.00 jo.oo 10.00 
Steam Fixtures .... 12.00 14.00 14.00 15.00 
For complete price list and full imformation see Press 
and Tool Catalogue, sent free on application. 

PRINTERS' ENDORSEMENTS. 

We are still using the 8 x 12 Golding, and have not 
changed our opinion about its being the best press for 
general use in the market. We have used it for two 
years, and there is no sign of wear yet. — Curry & 
Unholz, Bement, 111., Nov. 26, 1892. 

We have five Goldings in line, and they are 
beauties in every respect. — R. S. Baird Co., Mil- 
waukee, Wis., Jan. 7, 1893. 

My press (No. 6 Jobber, vintage of i88( 
nrhs as well as a new one. I do not know of 
any press of its size for which I would be 
willing to trade, unless it was for a new 
one of the same kind with improvements. 
— Fred. L. Evarts, Topeka, Kansas, 
September 24, 1 ~ 

We have 
one of the 
No. 6 Job- 
bers and 
it " makes 
music," and dol- 
lars too, every day. 
R. M. Early, Smithville, 
N. J., March 4, 1893. 

Especially well pleased are we 
with the Golding Jobber, which 
we have been using now for several 
years, and actually believe there 
is no other press on the market 
turning out both quality and quantity 
of work equal to it. Were we com- 
pelled to use one hundred more job 
presses, they would all be of the 
Golding Jobber tribe. — O. C. Dorney 
Allentown, Pa., May 12, 1892. 

The large Golding (No. 9) we bought 
of you is so easy to make ready, and 
its strength allows it to be run with such 
speed that it can be made to answer all 
our requirements for large 
forms. We are great par- 
tisans of the Golding, 
and so are our job 
printers, foreman 
included— E. P. 
Howe & Son, 
Saratoga 
Springs, 
N. Y., 
May 28, 
1892. 



In August, 1891, I put in my office a complete Gold- 
ing Jobber No. 9, after considerable correspondence 
with manufacturers about the various makes. The 
"School News" consists of thirty-six pages, includ- 
ing covers. * It is printed four pages at a time; is fed 
by a boy, and he averages from eight to ten thousand 
impressions per day. Quite often a form of the paper 
is put on in the morning, and before six in the evening 
the run of 10,400 copies is from the press. We very 
often run it at the rate of 1200 per hour. It can be 
run faster than that. In brief, after using it fifteen 
months, I believe it is just what the manufacturers 
claim for it. — C. M. Parker, Taylorville, 111., Nov. 
7, 1892. 

We have a Golding which we have run for nearly 
eight years, and it is the finest in the world to-day. — 
M. J. & J. L. Stewart, Winston, N. C, Feb. 8, 1893. 

I received one of your No. 8 Jobbers, all complete, 
with attachments, from Chicago, last month, and am 
very well pleased with my investment. I have now 
three of your presses, your standard sticks, rule 
cutter, galley and case brackets, and several other con- 
veniences of your make. After many years' experience, 
both in England and in the States, I reached the con- 
clusion long ago that if a printer consults his own 
interest he will furnish his office with your presses and 
tools. — Frank H. West, Detroit, Mich., April 7, 
1893. 

The Chromatic No. 7 arrived safely, and we have been 
too busy making money with it to acknowledge re- 
ceipt. — The Jefferson Press, Charles H. Brown, 
Manager, Detroit, Mich., Jan. 25, 1893. 

In regard to the press (No. 8 Jobber), I must say 
that so far it meets with every claim you make for it, 
and, besides that, it more than reaches my expectations. 
If I was about to buy a dozen job presses, the Golding 
should have the preference over all others. I expect 
after a while to put in one of the smaller sizes to take 
the place of a Gordon now in my office. — F. L. 
Blome, Staunton, 111., July 27, 1892. 

We have a No. 6 Golding in use on our floors for 
two years past, and we would 
not exchange it. It suits us 
to a" T." — Burgess & Hum- 
phrey, Monticello, 111, Dec. 
15, 1892. 

We think 
the Golding 
presses are 
the greatest 
money-mak- 
ers in an of- 
fice — far bet- 
ter than the 
Gordon. — R. 
Parlette, 
Ada, Ohio, . 
January 16, 
1893. 




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The Printers' Review. 



FOUNTAINS FOR JOB PRESSES. 

T)N a previous number of the Print- 
ers* Review we called attention to 
the value of a fountain in connection 
with a Job printing press. As some 
will read the World's Fair number 
who did not see the one referred to, 
and as all printers are desirous of ob- 
taining the greatest possible efficiency from the 





AUTOMATIC BRAYER FOUNTAIN. (OPEN.) 

machinery they run, we will repeat some of the 
points brought out and add something further 
upon the same subject. 

Take an eighth-medium press for the purpose 
of illustration, and assume that it is capable of 
producing twelve thousand impressions in a ten- 
hour run, which would be at the rate of twenty 
per minute. In order to carry uniform color it 
would be necessary, if ink were applied with 
the hand brayer, to use the brayer once for 
every 25 impressions, or 480 times for 12,000. 
Five impressions at least would be lost for 
each inking, making a loss of one minute for 
four applications of ink, and resulting in a 
loss of two hours out of ten. Any printer 
who watches carefully the progress of work 
on his presses we believe will admit that this is 
not an extravagant estimate. The illustration 
shows that it is possible to have a press sub- 
stantially unproductive during two hours out of 
the day, reducing the product 2,400 impressions, 
which means, at the rate of 50 cts. per thousand, 
a money loss of $1.20 per day, or $360 per an- 
num. The price of an Automatic Brayer Foun- 
tain for the eighth-medium (8x 12) Golding Job- 
ber is $25, for the quarto-medium ( 10 x 15) $35, 
for the half-medium (12x18) $40, and for the 
half-super-royal (15 x 21) $50. It is easy to see 
the comparative insignificance of the cost of a 
fountain when considered in connection with the 
lost time of employees. 

Every pressman knows that there is no better 
way to keep an even color on a disk distribution 
press than by a brayer in the hands of an as- 
sistant, the specific advantage of the method be- 
ing that the ink is distributed evenly upon the 
disk. Our Automatic Brayer Fountain performs 
the function of a brayer boy, but is infinitely 
more valuable because of the fact that ink suf- 
ficient for each impression only is supplied. The 
brayer roller can be given a complete revolution 
on the ink cylinder, and the ink it receives in 
this way is thoroughly distributed upon the plate, 
ready to be taken up by the form rollers. 

The objection is frequently raised by those 
who compare our presses with others with the 
intention of buying, that our fountain cannot 
be used for forms requiring a great deal of ink, 
and that in this respect our presses are inferior 
to those having cylinder distribution. As proof 
positive that this opinion is incorrect, we refer 
the reader to the tint printed on the first page of 
this number of the Review. This was run on 
a No. 9 (15 x 21) Golding Jobber with an Auto- 
matic Brayer Fountain and Duplex Distributor, 
and with only one rolling. We defy anyone 
to show a similar product of any other press 
with which this will appear unfavorably in com- 
parison. 

We show on this page a cut of the Automatic 
Brayer Fountain disconnected for cleaning, and 
we think its mechanism will be easily under- 
stood. It is difficult to conceive of a fountain 



that could be more easily cleaned. Its entire 
surface can be exposed by unscrewing the 
thumb screws on the clamping frame C, which 
then drops away from the ink reservoir B, allow- 
ing the latter to be lifted from the fountain cyl- 
inder A. The cylinder can then be rotated by 
operating the handle F so that every particle of 
its surface is easily accessible. The frame hold- 
ing the brayer roller E can be swung over in 
front of the fountain within easy reach of the 
pressman. The corners of the ink reservoir B 
are rounded and there are no sharp angles or 
interstices in which ink can lodge. The change 
from one color to another can be made in a 
very few moments. 

The flow of the ink can be regulated both by 
the screws and by the ratchet while the press is 
in motion, and the entire apparatus is accessible 
from the feeder's position in front of the ma- 
chine. To sum up : the fountain is convenient, 
cleanly, affords a perfect and uniform supply of 
color, which is well distributed upon the disk, 
can be changed from one color to another so 
quickly that it will pay to do it even for a short 
run, and costs so little that no printer can afford 
to be without it — and a Golding Jobber, with 
which alone it can be used. 

THE CHROMATIC ATTACHMENT. 

We cannot leave the subject of fountains 
without making some reference to the Chro- 
matic Attachment, which can be furnished for 
our Nos. 7 and 8 Golding Jobbers. This is 
substantially the Automatic Brayer Fountain ex- 
tended so as to cover the full diameter of the 
ink disk, and supplied with partitions so that 
from one to twelve colors can be run at one 
impression. It is entirely practicable, and for 



CHROMATIC ATTACHMENT. 

offices that aim to produce novelties it offers 
opportunities in the way of variety that are un- 
attainable on any other press. The colors may 
be run separately, or blended together if desired. 
The fountain can be used for one-color work in 
the same way as the regular Automatic Brayer 
Fountain. We shall be pleased to supply sam- 
ples of work done on the Chromatic Press, and 
to answer any questions that may be asked con- 
cerning it. 





A newspaper man is in some instances like other 
people. He respects his friend, appreciates a kind- 
ness, and is always willing to return a favor. In 
another respect he resembles his fellowmen. He will 
not continue to pat a man on the back, tell what a 
good man he is, and how much he has done for the 
town and give him a free business puff every day 
when the man will not, through personal prejudice or 
otherwise, continue to aid in supporting the paper. 
In other words, he stands by the man who stands by 
him. That's about the way of the world, and a news- 
paper man can't be expected to be so much different 
from other people. — Iowa Falls Citizen. 

Better have one press, and that a good one, and a 
dozen fonts of type, and those in good condition and 
of ample size, than a dozen poor presses and a thou- 
sand small fonts of worn type. — Newspaperdom. 

In the newspaper comments upon the Columbian 
series of postage stamps one of the points of criti- 
cism is that the several portraits of Columbus 
employed in the series are not the same. " On one 
denomination," says the writer in question, " Colum- 
bus is represented as sighting land, and on the other 
denomination as landing. Even in those days of 
slow lumbering caravels, there could not have been 
over twenty-four hours difference between the two 
events, yet according to these stamps Mr. Columbus 
when he discovered land was beardless, and when he 
landed had a respectable six months' growth of beard 
— the only respectable thing we have ever heard ot 
about Christopher." 

Mr. Theodore L. De Vinne, who may be quoted 
as an authority, says the average work of cylinder 
presses in job rooms does not exceed 3,500 impressions 
per day. On platen presses the average must be less, 
rather than more. Mr. De Vinne bases his estimates 
on the old style platen presses. He should throw them 
out and put in our Golding Jobbers, which can be run 
at a speed of 2,000 to 3,000 an hour. 

It is equally as essential for a reporter whose aim it 
is to make a name for himself as an editor to be strictly 
truthful and conscientious, as it is for the young man 
in the mercantile business who has the ambition of 
some day being classed among the honorable mer- 
chants. There seems to prevail among many of our 
young newspaper men the impression that to be a 
"hustler" in the business, truth must be sacrificed in 
the interests of fiction. But the young man who 
hopes to reach the goal of success by falsifying and 
misrepresentation will learn some day that it is a sad 
mistake to use such principles to gain fame and 
success. The maxim of " honesty is the best pol- 
icy " holds just as good in journalism as in any 
other business. — Weekly Journalist. 

Job printing is becoming specialized as well as 
all other kinds of business and professions. The 
man who follows one branch, and who prepares 
himself with the latest facilities for doing that 
branch, is the one who makes the money. — News- 
paperdom. 

A useful novelty is a blotting paper finished 
on one side with a surface as smooth as Bristol 
board. For monthly calendars, which seem to be 
a popular advertising medium at present, this 
will prove a convenient substitute for the blotter 
and card usually employed. 

Some books are edifices to stand as they are 
built; some are hewn stones ready to form a part 
of future edifices; some are quarries from which 
stones are to be split for shaping and after use." — 
Oliver W. Holmes 



THE WORLD'S FAIR TICKETS. 



An advertiser in one of the papers says he has a 
cottage to let containing six rooms and an acre of 
land. 



The 50,000,000 admission tickets to the World's 
Fair at Chicago will be upon paper specially made 
for the purpose by Crane & Co., of Dalton, Mass. 
It was manifestly of great importance to use a pa- 
per which could not easily be counterfeited, and the 
silk thread paper was out or the question, as the gov- 
ernment could not allow its special safeguard to be 
distributed in that common manner. But a happy 
subordination of the idea was devised, and found en- 
tirely feasible in connection with the fine, thin card 
upon which the elaborate design by the American 
Bank Note Company was to be printed. This plan 
was the delicate and unique one of scattering between 
the sheets of paper of which the cards are composed 
tiny disks of colored tissue paper. The largest is 
the size of a pin's head. Blue, pink and salmon 
are the colors of the tissue paper disks, which can 
be very plainly seen through the thin paper on 
each side. The disks are not scattered all over 
the ticket, but simply in a row less than an inch 
wide across from top to bottom. Much money could 
be saved by using them only in the center of the 
ticket, but the increased difficulty of the process 
adopted, makes counterfeiting almost impossible. 
These tickets will be about the size of a small postal 
card, and as the engraving will be very attractive it is 
supposed that many will be kept as souvenirs oi the 
event. The price is to be fifty cents each. 



The Printers' Review. 



THE PEARL PRESS. 




t>T is a difficult matter to produce a 
machine for any line of work that will 
gain the favor or even attract the at- 
tention of consumers ; but there must 
be unusual merit when years of use 
serve only to increase popularity and 
strengthen confidence, as has been 
the case with the Pearl Press. Since first placed 
on the market it has occupied the position of 
the leading machine in its class, and although 
other presses have come into competition with 
it, they have enjoyed a sky-rocket existence only, 
and left the sturdy Pearl in possession of its es- 
pecial field. Reasons are not wanting for the 
phenomenal success of the Pearl. 

First of all, it is a well-built press. Unlike 
many of the presses that are advertised at 
a low cost, it has sufficient care bestowed 
upon its manufacture to insure good material 
throughout, and perfect fitting of all parts. When 
it is run at a speed of two thousand per hour, or 
thereabouts, it does not creak and rattle and 
groan like a Cape Cod wind mill in a gale — 
in fact, there is no noise whatever except in 
the musical tinkling of the disk movement 
pawl, even when run as fast as the most ex- 
pert feeder can place the sheets. 

Owing to the perfect balance of all mov- 
ing parts, no undue wear or strain is brought 
upon any one bearing, or pair of bearings, 
and as a consequence the press can be run 
to its utmost capacity for years and never 
cause any trouble whatever from bad register 
or slurring. We have seen Pearls that have 
been allowed to become badly worn through 
neglect in oiling, and which would, neverthe- 
less, print a single line on an address card 
without any slurring whatever. This state- 
ment is not made to condone the practice of 
neglecting the care for presses, but to illustrate 
the advantages which a press built with pos- 
itive movements possesses over those differ- 
ently made. A Pearl press may be run ten 
years by foot power without entailing the cost 
of a cent for repairs, excepting such as maybe 
caused by accident or carelessness, and at the 
end of that time the only expense that will be 
necessary to put it in good running order will 
be, in case of the No. 3, $1.25, for the follow- 
ing parts : 

5 Rocker Connection Pins $0 75 

2 Ink Frame " Studs. 50 

These parts can be applied quickly and by 
anyone who is at all familiar with the press. 

COST AND CAPACITY OF THE PEARL. 

This press is now made in three sizes and 
two styles, as follows : 



No. 
No. 
No. 
No 



8 in. inside chase 



70 00 
no 00 
165 00 
180 00 



5* 

7 x 11 in. *' " 

9 x 14 in. " " 

9x14 in. " " with Throw-off 

The first three in the list are of the 
style shown in the cut at the bottom of 
this page and are not provided with 



an impression throw-off. They are built to cover 
the entire range of job work that will come 
within the capacity of their respective chases, 
with the exception of unusually heavy plate 
forms and work requiring an extraordinary 
amount of ink. 

The No. 1 is an especial favorite with printers 
of specialties like druggists' labels and envelopes 
or any kind of work that calls for great speed, the 
pecularities of which will not permit of a dupli- 
cation of the forms. 

The No. 3 is also in demand for the line of 
work similar to that mentioned in connection 
with the No. 1, and of course is more desirable 
in some instances owing to its larger capacity. 

The No. 5, the latest of this series, affords a 
press capable of doing nearly all the work that 
could be put on a 10 x 15-inch quarto-medium, 
and at a price far less than such a press can be 
obtained at. It can be run by foot power very 
easily, owing to the perfect balance of the rocker 
and platen, and any desired speed can be ob- 
tained. By means of the Duplex Fountain, which 




is referred to later on, and the reversible disk 
movement, a perfectly even color can be carried. 

The No. 14 Pearl is one of a new series, and 
unlike those mentioned above, its frame is 
made in a solid casting. This gives the same 
quality of rigidity and strength found in no 
other press besides the Golding Jobber, and 
makes the No. 14 Pearl, excepting the Jobber, 
the strongest and best constructed quarto-me- 
dium in the market, having a disk distribution. 
Notwithstanding the largely increased expense 
of building a press in this way, and the fadt that 
a convenient and perfect impression throw-off is 
provided, we have advanced the price of this 
press only $15 above that charged for the No. 5. 
A cut of this machine is shown herewith. The 
Pearl can be relied upon to print full forms of 
commercial work easily, and it can be used for 
small posters and placards when necessary, al- 
though we do not recommend that it be used for 
the latter class of work constantly. We have 
received samples of catalogue work requiring a 
very heavy impression with hard packing that 
have been printed on the Pearl No. 3, and the 
printers' letters accompanying them stated that 
they found no difficulty in doing the work, ex- 
cepting that they had to use a trifle more care in 
making ready so as to save unnecessary strain 
on the impression. 

SPEED OF THE PEARL. 

As we have said before, any speed is attain- 
able within the ability of the feeder. Messrs. 
J. W. Cole & Co. of Black River Falls, Wis., 
write that their No. 3 Pearl is run at 3,500 an 
hour "without a rattle." Mr. L. H. Roscoe of 
Jericho, Vt., writes that he has been running a 
No. 3 Pearl from fifteen to eighteen hours a day 
with full-chase forms and that a good, clear im- 



pression is obtained. He has run a full form at 
the rate of 2,200 per hour. Mr. Charles P. Mer- 
rill of Portland, Me., printed 25,000 tags in nine 
hours by foot power, and a New York firm has 
run 200,000 cards in five days on the Pearl. We 
have a great many testimonials similar to these, 
corroborating our claims regarding the speed of 
the press. 

THE INK SUPPLY. 

There have been a great number of inventions 
patented, looking toward an improved ink sup- 
ply for disk presses, none of which, save the 
automatic brayer fountain used on our Golding 
jobber, have succeeded in accomplishing in a 
satisfactory manner the end sought. The Du- 
plex Fountain now provided for our Nos. 5 and 
14 Pearl Presses is the nearest approach to 
perfection of disk ink distribution. By a simple 
mechanism we cause the ink disk to make a com- 
plete revolution and then reverse to the point of 
beginning. Our duplex fountain is composed 
of two single fountains, such as we have adver- 
tised before for the Pearl Press, one placed at 
either side of the disk, near the top. The 
upper form roller touches the feed rolls of the 
two fountains, distributing the ink on the ex- 
treme outer edges of the disk, so that it is 
not carried directly to the form, but distrib- 
uted before working into the center of the 
disk. As every printer knows, when a disk 
with the ordinary movement takes ink from 
a single fountain, the color is carried heavily 
to one end of the form, and the opposite end 
must either be allowed to run light or the de- 
ficiency made up by application of the hand 
brayer. This evil is entirely overcome by our 
reversing disk movement and the Duplex 
Fountain. 

GUARANTY. 

We make broad claims for these presses, 
but we are prepared to substantiate them, and 
will send a press on trial to any printer who 
is convinced that a Pearl will meet his re- 
quirements, provided it will do what we claim 
for it, subject to thirty days' trial, to be re- 
turned at our expense after such trial if it does 
not prove satisfactory in every way. We invite 
correspondence regarding terms, and shall be 
pleased to give any further information that 
may be required. The Pearls are carried in 
stock at our Chicago and Philadelphia 
branches and by nearly all dealers in print- 
ers' supplies. 

Attention is invited to the following brief 
extracts from some of the many commend- 
atory letters we have received from printers 
in whose offices the Pearl Press is used. 

WHAT IS THOUGHT OF THE PEARL. 

The No. 14 Pearl Press is the easiest-running quarto- 
medium press that we have ever used, besides being 
strong, compact and well built. Will Eskew & Co., 
Quincy, 111. 

The No. 5 Pearl Press does as good work as could 
be required and satisfies us in every particular. A boy 
fifteen years old runs ours by foot power steadily. Le 
Moyne Normal Institute, T. P. Rawlings, Man- 
ager, Memphis, Tenn. 

The Pearl Press returned us our money in six 
weeks from the time it was first placed in our office. 
For all kinds of work, from a dainty card to a full form 
of poster type, the Pearl Press cannot be beaten. Mech- 
ler Bros., Johnson City, Kansas. 

The No. 3 Pearl in the office where I work (The 
Koch & Oakley Printing Co.) went through the big 
Seattle fire three years ago. The wood work on the 
press was burned off, but the machine itself, when 
fished from the ruins, was found to run all right. Two 
years later the firm was burned out again. This time a 
number of men, in their haste to save something, man- 
aged to get a rope around the press and the fellows at 
the other end, down in the street, started and jerked it 
end over end down a flight of stairs. The press was 
thought to be done for this time sure; but no, it is clip- 
ping along to-day as gay as ever, and is the pride of the 
office A. H. Phelps, Seattle, Wash. 

We are using a Pearl Press for the tenth year and it 
is as good as ten years ago. Langworthy & Son, 
Spring Valley, Minn. 

The Pearl Press No. 3, bought in 1882, has been in 
constant use and has never failed to respond to its full 
capacity and in an admirable manner. I would not 
part with it for any press of the same size made. For 
miscellaneous and small work, and especially colors, 
its simplicity and ease in making ready render it indis- 
pensable to any office, however large. R. M. Gordon, 
Lewiston, Me. 

Have used your Pearl presses for two years, and can 
say that after working at the printing business for forty 
years I have never found a press to equal them. They 
are run at 3000 per hour on many jobs and have never 
needed repairs. T. E. Ash, 383 Federal St., Boston. 



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The Printers' Review. 



IMPROVED PRINTERS' TOOLS. 




|hHE printer who keeps his eyes open 
for new labor-saving devices is able 
to figure the closest on the probable 
cost of getting up a job ; and those 
tools to which we purpose calling 
attention are not by any means the 
least important of recent improve- 
ments that have been made in this line 

No office would be complete without a plentiful 
assortment of composing sticks, and the variety 
of styles now on the market is almost unlimited. 
Perhaps the one in most common use is the old 
screw stick, and who has not had the skin taken 
off his fingers with the screw-driver at some time, 
while trying to loosen a refractory screw? 




THE STANDARD JOB STICK. 

forms a marked contrast to the old patterns and 
is at once the most convenient and most perfect 
stick ever made. It has a graduated scale, so 
that it may be instantly set to any nonpareil or 
pica measure, but cannot be set to irregular 
widths ; and, once set, the knee cannot possi- 
bly slip, being held in place by a steel pin which 
extends from the clamp through the back of the 
stick into the knee. It can be readily seen what 
an immense advantage a stick of this kind is, in 
an office where work has to be divided among 
several compositors, as the various " takes " must 
be of a uniform width, instead of each stick vary- 
ing more or less, as with the old style. 




which holds it perfectly solid and prevents the 
knife from springing away from its work, a fault 
which is common to most cutters. The back 
gage is reversible, so that, while the bed on 
a No. i is only eight inches long, a rule may 
be cut to a gage twelve inches long. There 
is also a front gage for cutting narrow pieces of 
lead or rule. 

One of our latest improvements on this ma- 
chine was to fit it with a standard gage. Narrow 
slots are made in the bed of the cutter, by picas, 
and the adjustable gage is provided with a tooth 
fitting the slot, making it impossible for the 
gage to slip. Irregular lengths can be cut, how- 
ever, if desired. By the old system of setting the 
cutter, by quads or leads, one could never feel 
sure that the gage was exactly the same as the 
sample, while with the standard gage leads or 
rule may be cut from time to time without vary- 
ing a hair's breadth. The usefulness of this 
device in preventing waste and saving time will 
readily be seen by every practical printer, and 
those who now depend on old files, shears and 
such make-shifts should consider the vast amount 
of time one of these machines would save them. 




LITTLE GIANT LEAD AND RULE CUTTER, 

This cutter has a reputation that extends to 
all parts of the world, and it will be found among 
the valued accessories of many of the principal 
printing houses of Europe, South America and 
Australia, as well as in thousands of offices in 
the United States. It possesses many features 
that are to be found on no other cutter, and its 
great superiority is admitted by everyone who 
has ever used it. The leverage is very powerful, 




THE STANDARD GAGE. 



Nonpareil rule being cut on the Nos. i and 2 with 
great ease, while Long Primer rule can be cut on 
the Nos. 3 and 4. In operating, the head or 
outer edge of the knife comes down into a socket 



GOLDING'S UPRIGHT MITERER. 

is another machine in which considerable im- 
provement has been made by us. The bed-plate 
is built low, so that when placed on top of a 
table or cabinet it is not necessary to stand on a 
box in order to get sufficient power on the down 
stroke, and is not nearly so tiresome on the arms 
as the higher machines. The bed can be moved 
when the knife gets dull in one spot, so that the 
full width can be used before resharpening. 

The piece which holds the knife is pivoted to 
an upright steel rod, the knife being placed very 
close to the center of the movement, thus giving 
a powerful pressure against the rule, and the 
knife head working up and down on the upright 
rod makes the cut exactly the same at the top as 
at the bottom, Overcoming the chief defect 
of the common upright miterer, which has a ten- 
dency to spring away from the work at the 
bottom of a cut. The cut of the knife is 
regulated by two screws at the back, one 
being placed at each corner, a feature 
not to be found on other miterers. The 
gage-guide is graduated to picas, and 
numbered, and the movable gage may 
be instantly set by an indicator, without using 
quads, and the indicator may be easily adjusted 
to take up any variation caused by changing the 
position of the knife. A new rule clamp is pro- 
vided, which extends in front of the movable 
gage, for holding short pieces against the gage- 
guide when it is not possible to hold them with 




PEARL LEAD CUTTER. 

(See next page.) 

the fingers. The movable gage travels in a 
V-shaped slot on the bottom of the gage-guide, 
and the set screw acts on the beveled top in such 
a way that the greatest amount of pressure is 
obtained to prevent slipping. It is no uncommon 
occurrence to find the movable gage on a miterer 
perfedtly useless on account of its being bent 



out of shape or broken by the pressure of the 
thumb-screw ; but this is almost impossible on 
our machine, as the gage is made very strong, 
without being clumsy, while the bearing surface 
is much larger than usual, pressing on the top, 
bottom and side of the gage-guide. Twenty-four- 
point rule, or even thicker, may be easily and 
accurately mitered. 

The bed is marked with figures, indicating the 
proper position of the gage-guide for making 
any given angle. For instance, to make a tri- 
angle, the guide would be set at 3 ; for a square, 
at 4 ; an octagon, at 8, etc. 




GOLDING'S CURVER. 

The full value and utility of this machine can 
be properly appreciated only by those who 
have used it. It is just as indispensable as a 
good lead-cutter or stick to the printer who aims 
to produce fine effects in rule-work. It will 
make not only short curves, but also complete 
circles from the smallest to the largest size. The 
operation of the machine is very simple, and 
it has no parts liable to get out of order. A 
set of square corner dies can also be furnished, 
which, when in use, are put in the place of sev- 
eral of the smaller segments in the curver. By 
their use it is possible to make square, solid cor- 
ners without the use of a mitering machine, thus 
doing away with much bother and vexation, as 
the larger size will turn 6-point rule with but lit- 
tle effort. A greater variety of corners is obtained 
by using rule with the shoulder entirely on one 
side and the face flush with the edge as shown 
in Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2 shows a piece of four-point rule with the 
shoulder on the outside, and Fig. 3 with the 
shoulder inside. By using a light face rule with 
the shoulder on one side a perfectly square cor- 
ner can be made like Fig. 4, with the help of a 
light hammer and rule stone. Fig. 5 shows a 
piece of six-point rule with the face in the center 
of the body. Fig. 6 shows a piece of two-point 
face rule. 

As every printer knows, it is easier to make 
two rules join in a straight line than at a corner, 
so that by making the corners solid it is only 
necessary to put in the straight rules on the ends 
and sides to obtain a perfect set of rules, mak- 
ing a short and simple job. 

Our 1893 machinery catalogue contains some 
interesting specimens of work executed on the 
curver, and will be sent to any printer who gives 
us his address. 




LITTLE GIANT RULE SHAPER. 

It is not always possible to use the ordinary 
mitering machine as conveniently or expedi- 
tiously as desired in office^ where labels or 



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other work requiring a great deal of mitering is 
done. Several attempts have been made to im- 
prove on the upright miterer, but the Little 
Giant is the only one that has proved itself a 
success in every way. 

This machine has a rotary motion and makes 
two complete miters at one operation, and in 
fact the whole machine is a radical departure 
from the principle of the upright miterer. The 
different angles are made, not by shifting the 
gage-guide, but by changing the knives, of which 
five are furnished with each machine — one to cut 
off square, and one each to cut angles for figures 
of three, four, six and eight sides, each one being 



numbered according to the number of sides re- 
quired to make a complete figure. 

In operating, the rule is clamped solidly to the 
gage-guide, the knife being moved over the rule 
by an eccentric movement, and is lowered auto- 
matically after each forward movement until the 
rule is cut through, after which it rises to its 
original position ready for another cut. The 
extension gage is so constructed that it can be 
reversed so as to gage twenty-four inches. It is 
also graduated to picas. 

When making a set of rule it is not necessary 
to cut completely through, but just far enough to 
leave the pieces holding together, as two com- 
plete miters are made at one operation, and when 
the cuts are all made the piece may be bent into 
shape and soldered, presenting the appearance 
of solid corners, facilitating the locking-up. 

Twenty-four-point rule can be 
cut and mitered without diffi- 
culty, and miters of any kind 
can be made in half the time 
and much more accurately than 
" er machine. 



quired number the large blade is rested on the 
top of the pile of paper and moved forward 
until the lower or smaller blade enters the pile. 
It will be found that the piles thus made will 
vary but little by actual count from the original 
pile. It is a very convenient implement to use 
in connection with our tablet press. 




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PAD COUNTER. 

Our Pad Counter will be found a very handy 
tool to have around the office. It consists of 
two flat blades, one somewhat larger than the 
other, which can be set at any distance up to iH 
inches apart. To count a job or separate it into 
pads for blocking, it is only necessary to count 
off the first hundred sheets or so, then press the 
two blades close together on the counted pile 
and clamp them by giving the handle a twist, 
the end of the handle holding a screw which 
presses against the movable knife and holds it 
in place. After being set to measure the re- 



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GOLDING'S TABLET PRESS. 

Until recently pad or block making was essen- 
tially a part of the book-binding business, but 
now by the use of our Tablet Presses it is possible 
for every printer to do all his own work of this 
description at a cost of next to nothing. 

When closed, ready for filling, the press re- 
sembles a trough with a screw at one end. 
After the press is filled, by placing the paper 
in cornerwise, it is clamped tight by turning the 
screw, and then the whole is thrown out over 
the table, so as to have the smooth sides upper- 
most, as shown in the cut, when it is ready to 
have the edges cemented. 

In order to bring the clamp in the center of 
the various sizes of paper, the hinged frame is 
provided with a long thumb-screw by which it 
can be raised or lowered. The blocks can be 
made of any thickness, and the cardboard backs 
being inserted at the proper places, and the 
block when taken from the press can be sep- 
arated into sections by the use of a thin, sharp 
knife, after the cement has hardened sufficiently 
to hold the paper. 




BOSTON DUPLEX CABINET. 

The press is made in two sizes, the No. i 
holding from 2,000 to 2,500 sheets of paper 
from 2x2 inches up to 6 x 12, while the No. 2 
will hold 5,000 sheets of any size up to 8 x 16 
inches. * 

For cementing the edges of the blocks our 
Liquid Cement will be found the most desirable, 
as it is always ready for use, and, being made in 
colors, it is not necessary to use colored paper 
to give a finish to the block. It is stronger 
than glue, and can be used on wood or metal 
as well as on paper. Ten minutes is all the 



time it requires to dry sufficiently to allow the 
blocks to be removed from the press, so that a 
large job may be blocked in a verv short time. 

LABOR-SAVING FURNITURE. 

A drawer full of odd lengths of furniture, 
among which you can never find what you want, 
is still a feature in some offices. New furniture 
is constantly being bought and cut up, but the 
supply always seems to diminish and nobody 
knows how it disappears. Possibly it has at- 
tractions for the " devil " when he lights the 
fire in the morning, but the fact remains that 
the printer's drawer of furniture is like the paper 
of pins. The supply grows beautifully less, but 
how? Generally it is because the long pieces 
are sawed up, an inch or so being taken off at 
a time, until nothing is left. In an office of any 
size this makes a very serious leak in the profits, 
but we are able to offer a very simple remedy in 
our Labor-Saving Furniture Cabinets. These 
racks are neat and durable, and can be set up 
almost anywhere handy to the imposing stone. 
There are eight pieces each of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 
10 line pica in each length from 12 ems to 60 
ems, varying by six pica ems, in one cabinet, and 
from 66 ems to 120 ems, varying by six pica ems, 
in a second cabinet. There are also smaller 
cabinets containing half this number of pieces, 
which are very convenient for small job offices. 
As the greatest difference in length between two 
sizes is only one inch, it will readily be seen that 
any kind of a form can be locked up without 
the necessity of cutting the 
pieces. What an improve- 
ment and saving of time on 
the old way, where you had 
to stop and cut the furniture 
for nearly every form you 
locked up ! 

The racks are 27^ and 
30 inches high by 15 inches 
wide, and are varnished, 
those for full fonts being 
divided by partitions for the 
different widths. The fur- 
niture is filled with a water- 
proof composition to pre- 
vent its warping, and each 
piece is stamped with its 
length, so that the. pieces 
may be readily distinguished 
when the form is unlocked 
and returned to their proper 
places. 

Our own printing office, 
in which the Review is 
printed, is well supplied 
with all of our labor-saving 
devices, and it has been 
demonstrated that with fair 
usage they will last for years, 
while the amount of time that can be saved 
would surprise you. The proprietor of one 
office which we have equipped writes that with 
our labor-saving material he is now able to ac- 
complish as much work with one man as he 
formerly turned out with the help of two, and 
like testimony has come from many others. 

BOSTON DUPLEX CABINET. 

Are you crowded for case room in your job 
department? If you are, just examine this cab- 
inet and see what a saving of space it will make 
for you. One Duplex Cabinet will hold as many 
fonts as two of the old fashioned news stands, 
and it occupies less than one-third the floor 
space at that. Where rents are high, such a 
saving of floor space would be no small item, to 
say nothing of the compositors' time that is 
saved by not having to run around so much. 
They are completely closed in and protected 
from the dust, so that it is impossible for the 
cases to become half full of dirt as they do 
where the sides are open. Another notable im- 
provement is the use of steel instead of wooden 
runs, by which it becomes possible to get six 
additional cases into a single cabinet, making 
twenty-six in all, including a pair of news or 
other cases on top. The cases all have projec- 
tions of about two inches on the back so that 
the whole case may be easily reached without 
removing it from the cabinet. 

It may appear odd at first to see the cases on 
top reversed, but have you ever been working 
on a stand from which every compositor in the 
office seemed to want a line in the course of an 
hour? Just so. Well, by this arrangement a 




LABOR-SAVING FURNITURE RACK. 




PAD COUNTER. 



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book or job compositor can work in peace, and 
anyone can get at the cases without disturbing 
him, while the standing galley forms a very con- 
venient place for dead jobs, etc. There is also 
another small galley or shelf under the lower 
case which forms an excellent place for the com- 




positor's galley while setting. Our projecting 
case brackets save six inches in the width of 
each cabinet, enabling a compositor to sit down 
to his work if he wishes to, and allowing four 
rows to be put in the space occupied by three 
of the old pattern. 

An office furnished entirely with these cabi- 
nets presents a fine appearance and impresses 
one with their great utility and convenience. 
This is, however, only one of the various space 
and labor-saving stands manufactured by us, 
and if you would like to learn about the others 
send for our latest catalogue of Machinery, Tools 
and Furniture, which gives prices, etc. 

The diagram shown above gives a very good 
idea of the space-saving qualities of our cabi- 
nets and stands, and illustrates two of our Bos- 
ton News Stands back to back, with Boston 
News Cases on top, the dotted lines showing 
the room that would be required by ordinary 
cases, while the line at the bottom indicates the 
amount of floor space required by the old style 
news stand. As will readily be seen, the saving 
of floor space is fully one-third by their use. 



POOLE'S BENZI NE CAN. 

" The benzine bottle is bro- 
ken again ! " This is a com- 
mon expression in some places 
where cans are still unknown. 

The illustration here given 
shows one of the best and 
most popular benzine cans 
now made. It is air-tight and 
will outlast a dozen bottles. 
It has a screw top and the 
mouth is closed by a small 
brass ball which is fastened to 
a weight inside the can by a 
wire, thereby preventing evap- 
oration. To let out the ben- 
zine it is only necessary to 
turn the can upside down and 
give a slight shake, when the ball will slip from 
the mouth of the can, returning to its place when 
the can is placed upright again. The price is 
quite reasonable, and the can gives satisfaction 
wherever it is used. 




. . . BUY . . . 

flew process Moot) G^pe 

AND SAVE 50 PER CENT. 

This type is as good in every way as the old style 
cut letter, and costs much less. From list prices, which 
are from 25 to jo per cent, less than end wood, we give 

A DISCOUNT OF 52J% FOR GASH, 

and deliver, carriage paid, to any freight station in the 
United States when orders exceed JB20.00 net. 



Kept in Stock at Boston and Branch Salesrooms. 



TYPOMETRY. 




GOLDING & COMPANY, 

BOSTON. PHILHDELPHIK. CHICHGO. 



P to within a few years the study of typo- 
metry, or the dimensions of the various 
bodies of type, was almost unknown to 
printers, and even to many founders. In 
Great Britain, and in this country before 
the adoption of the American point stand- 
ard, the utter want of system rendered a knowledge 
of the peculiarities of more than two or three of the 
foundries of almost impossible attainment; and, as to 
other countries, it was known in a general way that 
a French founder — Francois Ambroise Didot — had 
established a standard which should contain a certain 
number of lines of each body, but very few knew ex- 
actly what their true dimensions were. 

In the early days of the art each printer or founder 
gave to the various sizes of type he made whatever 
body or height seemed to him most convenient, with- 
out regard to what others did or to any relationship 
between the sizes. Later the chamber of printers of 
Paris, with the object of maintaining some uniformity, 
procured a collection of the principal letters then in 
use, which were preserved as standards of the various 
bodies. To these were given the names of some of 
the most notable works that had been printed in the 
respective sizes; for instance, the name of Cicero was 
given to the letter used in 1467 by the first Roman 
printers in an edition of Cicero's " Familiar Epis- 
tles," the original body of which was a little larger 
than our English. So also our Pica, Primer and 
Brevier take their names from early devotional works 
on which they were first employed. The old names 
are generally discarded in Europe, with the excep- 
tion of Great Britain, since the adoption of Didot' s 
system. 

In 1737 it occurred to one of the most learned of the 
French printers — Fournier Jeune — to introduce a 
relative proportion among the different bodies, and he 
with this object invented the typographic point, which 
was adjusted to the legal unit of measurement then 
in use — the king's foot. As a standard for his sys- 
tem he constructed an apparatus which he called a 
prototype, divided into 240 points. This measure 
was preserved by the chamber of printers, which in- 
duced all the founders to adopt it as a standard. From 
that time dates the adjustment of printing materials 
on the Continent to a regular arithmetical progressions- 
each body of type consisting of a fixed and exact ' 
number of points. Some time afterwards, however 
(in 1784), Francois Ambroise Didot discovered that 
Fournier's measure did not exactly conform to the 
standard king's foot, either from inexact adjustment 
or because the measure had changed; he therefore in- 
creased Fournier's point one-twelfth, so that Didot's 
n-point became nearly equal to Fournier's 12-point, 
making the Cicero of the former about one point 
larger than that of the latter — which is the differ- 
ence between the Continental Cicero and the English 
and American Pica. 

Unfortunately the French king's foot did not co- 
incide with the metric system of measurement adopted 
in France in 1795, and with the view of obtaining a 
fixed and exact standard by which founders could 
adjust their matrices, Didot constructed a gage some- 
what similar to Fournier's prototype, which he named 
typometer, and which contained 288 points. This re- 
form produced great confusion and aroused an opposi- 
tion among the founders and publishers which was 
very difficult to overcome. To placate these Didot 
was obliged to retain the old nomenclature instead of 
denominating the sizes by the number of points as at 
present, but he reduced the number of points in each, 
viz.: Cicero became 11-point, and so on. By this 
means he finally won over those founders and pub- 
lishers who were unwilling to give up the old names, 
and his system gradually became general, not only in 
France, but also in Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, 
etc., — England only remaining attached to the ancient 
bodies. 

In 1843 Laurent & Deberney, founders of Paris, 
adopted as a basis 100 points, equal to 35 millimeters, 
which again increased the sizes proportionately; the 
plan, however, did not meet with much favor. Mean- 
while the German founders were seeking for more 
uniformity, and about 1840 several of them attempted 
to improve on the system in vogue ; but all lacked a 
fixed and certain basis, as none of them agreed exactly 
with the legal standard of measurement. 

The first effort at systematization in Austria was 
made in 1841 by the director of the national printing 
office in Vienna, who adopted as a standard 23 Ciceros 
to 4 Viennese inches. About the same time Gottlieb 
Haase of Prague divided the Viennese inch into 36 
units (each about equal to 2 points American), and 
gave to each body a certain number of these units. 

When the French founder, Charles Derriey, brought 
out his celebrated combination borders in 1830 they 
were received with great favor, and the perfect ac- 
curacy with which the various pieces united to form 
a single design caused the German founders to think 
seriously over the advantages of a plan that would 
permit the use of all kinds of ornaments in combina- 
tion, and finally caused several of them to definitely 
adopt Didot's system. They needed, however, an 
exact standard as a basis, as there was a perceptible 
difference in sizes even among the French foundries; 
but instead oi getting together and unifying the Didot 
system, each one went on in his own way, some pro- 
curing typometers from France, while others were 
satisfied in adjusting their matrices to letters procured 
from that country. The result was so much confusion 
that it was said there were several Didot systems. It 



is to the introduction of the combination borders into 
this country that the anomalous size generally known 
as Minionette is due. As these borders were cut to 
Cicero and its multiples that body was necessarily re- 
tained, as the strikes or copies could not be adjusted to 
the pica standard; and many of these borders still 
show the variations just mentioned, much to the grief 
of the compositor who tries to use quads and spaces 
of two different fonts together. This difficulty was 
finally remedied by a number of the leading founders, 
under the leadership of Hermann Berthold, adopting 
in 1878 an exact standard based on the metric system. 
For this purpose the aid of the director of the Obser- 
vatory of Berlin was called in, and it was settled with 
exactness that 133 nonpareils should equal 798 points 
or 30 centimeters. This reform was accepted, and 
each founder concerned furnished himself with a 
standard typometer and regulated his sizes to corres- 
pond. The others soon found it to their advantage 
to drop into line and accept Berthold's reform, which 
was not very difficult, as there were really but slight 
variations in the matrices. 

Since 1879, then, the German typographers and all 
others using the Didot system have a uniform stand- 
ard based on the metric system, which is now the 
standard of measurement in nearly all civilized coun- 
tries, except Great Britain and the United States. 
The English foundries have never been willing to 
enter into this reform, partly from their natural con- 
servatism, and partly, perhaps, because the movement 
did not originate with them, as well as for the business 
reason that foreign customers who had supplied their 
offices from them would of necessity continue to do so 
while their type bodies remained distinct. It should 
in justice be said, however, that the honor of invent- 
ing a regular system does belong to an Englishman — 
Moxon, who, in his " Mechanical Exercises," pub- 
lished in 1683, gave a table indicating the number 
of lines of each size of type which should go to 
make an English foot. 

Very few, if any, of the British foundries agree in 
their type bodies, pica and nonpareil being the only 
sizes that even approximate uniformity. As our old 
American bodies were mostly brought over from 
England, and as all our older offices are still largely 
stocked with the old types, it is needless to dwell on 
the troubles and disadvantages connected with their 
use; but all progressive printers can congratulate 

thsm* 1 * 1 "— *Wv-~>j— a """^lg since the adop- 

the point system 
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STOiNJ^iViETZ FOLDER, with Paster and Trim- 
mer, to attach to press. Will fold from 6-col. 
folio to 6-col. quarto, three or four folds. No. 8, size 
"A." Will be sold at a bargain. Golding & Co., 45 
Plymouth Place, Chicago. 



Iftews 



Paper facilities, including 
Presswork, Composition, 
Stereotyping, Ready Set 
Matter and Ready Printed 
Sheets offered by us will enable publishers and print- 
ers to save time and money. 

NEW ENGLAND NEWSPAPER UNION, 

138 Pearl Street, Boston. 



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Every printer visiting the World's Fair who calls at 
our Chicago salesroom will be presented with a sample 
tube of "Owl Brand " colored inks, which are unequaled 
for density of color, fineness and working qualities. 

Order from us or write to us for information regard- 
ing anything needed in the line of printers' supplies. 
If we do not carry it we will obtain it, or give a 
description, if possible to do so. 

For a quick ink reducer, use Owline. Fifty cents 
buys twice as much as of any other reducer, and an 
equal quantity will go much farther, as there is no 
evaporation. Half-pint bottle, 50 cents; small trial 
bottle, 25 cents. 

Good ink is as essential to fine printing as pure air is 
to sound physical health. 

Iron or wooden roller bearers should be used on 
job presses whenever possible. They cost next to 
nothing, and start the rollers to revolving before they 
touch the form, preventing the slurred, greasy appear- 
ance of the top and bottom lines which is the mark of 
careless workmanship. We now keep specially finished 
hard wood bearers in stock for all presses. They can 
be mailed cheaply. 

We are ink makers. 
Please don't forget this, 
and try " Owl Brand," 
when the inks you are 
now using fail to give 
satisfaction. 

Promotion is almost 
certain to come to him 
who brings intelligent 
thought to bear upon 
his work; perhaps un- 
sought, and from an 
unexpected source; but 
time spent in acquiring 
knowledge about and 
beyond one's trade and 
immediate surround- 
ings may pay big div- 
idends. 

Our line of Bronze 
Powders is selected and 
imported expressly for 
printers' use. We will 
make special prices on 
large quantities. 

As special agents for 
the MacKellar, Smiths 
& Jordan Foundry of 
Philadelphia, we carry 
in stock all of their most 
desirable faces, which 
we will sell at liberal 
discounts for cash. 

Send us samples of 
special tints and inks 
and we guarantee a per- 
fect match 

For cash or on time 
we can give you gen- 
uine bargains in second- 
hand presses. A list of 
machines in stock ac- 
companies this Review. 
Read it carefully if you 
are in the market for 
anything in this line. 

Try "Owl Brand" 
Gold Size. It works 
better and imparts a 
finer gloss to the bronze 
than any other size 
made. 

The handiest inex- 
pensive article in a 
cylinder pressroom is 
an iron form truck. By its use the heaviest forms can 
be transported from place to place in an office without 
half the chance of pying encountered when carried by 
hand. Price, $3.00. 

If bought judiciously and used economically the cost 
of ink is one of the smallest expenses of a printing 
office. 

An advantage that we possess over other ink makers 
is that we maintain a perfectly equipped office for 
printing the Printers' Review, ink specimens and 
circulars for our own use, in which all inks are thor- 
oughly and practically tested. 

Canadian printers can obtain any of our manufac- 
tures that they require from the Dominion Type 
Founding Company of Montreal, Que. 

All of our fine colored and quick-drying inks are put 
up in patent Anti-Skin Cans, when the former are not 
ordered in tubes. These cans effectually prevent 
waste from skinning, and are used only for " Owl 
Brand." 

We have put hundreds of Golding Jobbers in offices 
on trial, and have never had one returned. This may 
appear a broad statement, but we challenge denial. 



HARMONIZING COLORS. 



Nearly every printer tries his hand at color print- 
ing occasionally, and the following diagram will be 
found very useful for the purpose of assisting those 




who do not understand how to group colors so that they 
will harmonize. Simple red and black is a combination 
beyond which everything is deep water to a great 



many, but by studying this diagram it will be found an 
easy matter to make many harmonious combinations. 

The points of the triangle, says the " Decorator and 
Furnisher" from which this diagram was taken, show 
the three great primaries from which all other colors are 
produced. Diametrically opposite these are placed 
their perfect contrasting colors. 

The points on the circle situated midway between 
the primary and secondary colors show the middle 
tones, or half colors, with their true contrasts directly 
opposite. 

To show the use of the chart as a determiner of 
harmony, we will take as an example purple. 

The dots marked on the line towards the centre, 
white, denote the various tones of purple produced by 
its mixture with white; any of these tones form a 
harmony with pure purple. 

Moving along the circle on each side of the purple, 
we find its harmonies decreasing as we leave it until we 
reach its most imperfect tones, blue-green and red- 
orange. 

Continuing the round of the circle, we approach its 
contrasting colors, gradually getting more pleasing 
until we reach its perfect contrast in the primary yellow. 



" SAVING IS M AKING." 

Under the above caption Mr. F. W. Thomas writes 
in the " Inland Printer " for March as follows concern- 
ing the use of inks : 

" Stop the spoilage. Don't use thin inks reduced 
until they are sloppy, so as to undersell better goods. 
It pays to buy good stiff inks. They work cleaner on 
the press, are far less likely to offset or slur, and are 
less liable to fade with age. Ink can be saved by 
keeping in a cupboard out of the dust, and fancy 
colored inks which are seldom used can be well pre- 
served by keeping about a quarter of an inch of water 
on top of the ink in each can." 

As true as a gun, every word. There is no economy 
in cheap ink. The difference between the cost of good 
and bad ink for an ordinary job is inconsiderable, but 
the saving of time when the former is used is great. 
Some are deterred from supplying their pressrooms 
with moderately expensive ink because of the large 
loss that arises from the wastage of the dried skin 
which forms on the top of many colors. There is per- 
haps no better way of preventing loss through skinning, 
when ordinary cans are used, than by employing 
water as suggested, but the royal remedy is to use 
Owl Brand Inks, put up in Patent Anti-Skin Cans, 
which absolutely prevent skinning. 



SPECIMENS RECEIVED. 

When you are issuing circulars or other advertising 
matter, send a copy to the Editor of the Review. 

E. F. Bigelow, Port- 
land, Conn., has recent- 
ly made extensive im- 
provements in his office, 
and has just issued a 
small pamphlet, in col- 
ors, stating that he is 
now ready for increased 
business. His office con- 
tains several of our 
Jobbers. 

J. S. Bridges & Co., 
Baltimore, have sent us 
some neat cards that 
ought to attract lots of 
business. 

We have received 
several cards, etc., from 
Will Eskew & Co., 
Quincy, 111., that show 
good workmanship and 
also indicate that the 
proprietors believe in 
keeping a stock of the 
best new job faces of 
type. 

A card from L. F. 
Wagner & Co., Mil- 
waukee, Wis., shows a 
good selection of colors, 
but the effect is spoiled 
by poorly joined rules. 

We have received 
copies of a paper de- 
voted to the typographic 
art, called " Tipografia 
Chilena," started on the 
first of the year at San- 
tiago, Chili. The num- 
bers before us are quite 
creditable, both me- 
chanically and editor- 
ially, and the " Histor- 
ical Sketch of Printing 
in Chili," as well as 
other articles, are quite 
interesting. The pio- 
neer printers in the 
country, it seems, were 
two Bostonians, and it 
appears that between 
the revolutions and 
counter - revolutions so 
frequent there, they had 
quite lively times of it. 
The Croke Printing Co., Boston, are out with an 
embossed card which is well executed and bears the fol- 
lowing legend : 

" Tis easy enough to be pleasant 

When life flows by like a song; 
But the man worth while, 
Is the man with a smile 

When everything goes dead wrong." 
A neatly executed little booklet of twenty pages tells 
what some of their customers think of the work exe- 
cuted by Cameron, Currie & Co., Montreal. 



BRON ZE CO LORS. 

Until recently ink makers have been able to give 
the bronze effect to blue only, but now we have besides 
Bronze Red and Bronze Brown. These inks are 
worked in the usual way, and give no more trouble on 
the press than black or common colors. They are the 
latest novelty, and there has been nothing like them 
for rich, striking results. Specimens of the different 
" Owl Brand " bronze colors mailed on application. 

We wish every printer to have a specimen book of 
Owl Brand inks, and will mail one if address is sent us. 




To more thoroughly introduce our inks, we will send the following selected assortments of the inks commonly 
used on job work, securely boxed, at prices as listed, and without cost for carriage, to any office in the United 
States of the following express companies: Adams Express Co., American Express Co., Northern Pacific Express 
Co., Pacific Express Co., United States Express Co. (Baltimore & Ohio), Southern Express Co., Wells targo 
& Co.'s Express. . .... f 

The assortments of colored inks are put up in collapsible tubes with screw tops, which prevent any possibility ot 
waste by skinning, etc, and make it possible to keep a fine ink for an indefinite period — an item of no small im- 
portance to printers who are in remote localities. 

ART TONES FINE COLORS. DOLLAR COLORS. STANDARD TINTS. 

% pound tubes. % pound tubes M pound tubes. % pound tubes. 

Photo Brown, $0 63 Scarlet Red, $0 38 Red . . . . . $0 30 Azure . . . - $0 25 

" Black, 50 Bronze Blue, 50 Blue ..... 30 Buff ..... 25 

Antique " 37 Golden Yellow, 50 Green ... 30 Drab 25 

Violet " 75 Bismarck Brown, 50 Brown .... 30 Emerald ... 25 

Blue " 50 Lake Red, 75 Yellow .... 30 Heliotrope . 25 

Green " 50 Emerald Green, 62 Gold Size ... 30 Lemon . . 25 



$3 25 I $3 25 $1 80 

$10.00 FOR THE FIVE ASSORTMENTS 



JOB BLACKS. 

% pound cans. 



Job Black . . . 
Quick Drying 
Dead Black . . 
Satin Black . . 



$0 25 
37 
50 
63 



$1 50 

DELIVERED FREE. 



$1 75 



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The Printers' Review. 



HEADQUARTERS AT CHICAGO FOR 
PRINTERS. 

Such printer visitors to the World's Fair as 
desire to do so are welcome to make our sales- 
room at 45 Plymouth Place (formerly Third 
Avenue) , a depository 
for grips, outer gar- 
ments, or anything that 
they may find it incon- 
venient to carry with 
them about the city. 
Writing and toilet ac- 
commodations will also 
be at their disposal. This 
will not incommode us 
in the least, and any pos- 
sible service in directing 
to points of interest, etc., 
will be cheerfully ren- 
dered by the manager 
and his assistants. 

Our salesroom, indi- 
cated by a Jg^t* on the 
map below, is nearer 
than that of any other 
dealer or foundry to the 
lines that carry people 
to the Fair, namely : 
State Street Cable Line, 
which will land passen- 
gers one square from the entrance, 
evated, which will enter the grounds. 



Cable Line passes within one square, the Alley 
Elevated two squares, the Illinois Central four 
squares, and the B. & O. five squares of our store. 

Our exhibit can be easily found by consulting 
the plan of Machinery Hall and Annex herewith. 
We shall keep a register for printers, and every 



MACHINERY HALL. 



sec j^Main Aisle 



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Sec 34- 




Machinery 



Section of northerly side of Machinery Hall and Annex, showing location of Golding- and Co.'s Exhibit in the latter, 
thirty feet from the door of Machinery Hall (A) which is opposite the main depot on the grounds. 



, Alley El- 
and which, 

by special arrangement, will sell coupon tickets 
entitling holder to admission and passage both 
ways. Illinois Central and Baltimore & Ohio 
R. R., both of which will set passengers down 
convenient to the grounds. The State Street 



one that calls will receive something as a me- 
mento of the occasion. 



Have you a copy of our specimen book of Owl 
Brand Printing Inks? It contains samples of the best 
possible productions in standard colors, and some 
toned inks that will prove invaluable on fine work. 



This building is considered as second only to the Ad- 
ministration Building in the magnificence of its appear- 
ance. It measures 850 x 500 feet, and with the Machinery 
Annex and Power House, cost about $1,009,000. It is 
located at the extreme south end of the Park, midway 
between the shore of Lake 
Michigan and the west line 
of the Park, and is just 
south of the Administration 
Building. It is spanned by 
three arched trusses, the in- 
terior ' presenting the ap- 
pearance of three railroad 
train-houses side by side, 
surrounded on all four sides 
by a gallery fifty feet wide. 
In each of these long naves 
is a traveling crane running 
from end to end of the build- 
ing for the purpose of mov- 
ing machinery. The power 
is supplied from a power 
house adjoining the south 
side of the building. 

The design of the build- 
ing follows classical models 
throughout, the detail being 
taken from the renaissance 
of Seville and other Spanish 
towns, as being appropriate 
to a Columbian celebration. 

The Machinery Annex 
adjoins Machinery Hall on 
the west, and is -an annex 
in fact, and not a detached structure as at first planned, 
with entrance by subways under the railway tracks. 
The Annex covers between four and five acres and in- 
creases the length of the Machinery building to nearly 
1400 feet, thus rendering it the second largest of all the 
Exposition structures, the great Manufactures build- 
ing alone exceeding it in size, with its forty acres of 
floor space. 



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Annex. 




Directory of Chicago Printers' Organizations. 

TYPOTHETAE. 

Offices: 151 and 153 Monroe Street. 
OFFICERS. 

President Charles E. Leonard 

i r -n • 1 . ( Fred Barnard 

Vice Presidents j _ w p DuNN 

Secretary Thomas Knapp 

418-420 Dearborn Street. 
Treasurer Franz Gindele 

Executive Committee. 

R. R. Donnelly, Chairman. 
Andrew McNally. W. B. Conkey. 

C. H. Blakely. B. B. Herbert. 



CHICAGO PRESSMEN'S UNION NO. 3. 

Secretary's Office, Room 42, 126 Washington Street. 
Office hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, each 
week, from 12.15 to 12.45. First and third Saturdays 
each month, from 4 to 6. - 

Regular monthly meeting is held on first Saturday of 
each month at hall corner of La Salle and Adams 
Streets, at 8 P. M. 

OFFICERS. 

President James H. Bowman 

Vice-President R. F. Sullivan 

Recording Secretary Joe Keil 

Secretary-Treasurer Frank Beck 

Executive Committee. 
William Moran. John P. Keefe. 

George A. Smith. 



CHICAGO TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION 
NO. 16. 

Headquarters, 122 Fifth Avenue. 
OFFICERS. 

President James Griffon 

Vice President George E. Esterling 

Secretary-Treasurer ....... William McEvoy 

Recording-Secretary and Organizer . Frank A. Kidd 

Regular monthly meeting is held on last Sunday of 
each month. 



This number of the Review was printed with Owl 
Brand $1.25 Satin Black, with the exception of the first 
page which was printed with $2.50 Photo Brown.